The City of Splendors

Game Master littlehewy

Arthur, you may have missed a rather eventful post there as it was just over the next page...

Aw newts. Sorry I tend to open all the new bits for posts and go through them as I go about my routine in the morning if I amn't working, it can take a while to get through them and occasionally I miss a new post.

I do the same :)

Also, thank you for the Inspiration GM! I'm glad you all are enjoying my journey with Reynwyn. This is definitely one of the benefits of PbP I find that I do enjoy a bit more than tabletop is the ability to really get fully into your character's thought patterns and such.

Aye! I take advantage of it more with some characters than others.

I can't currently edit my profile on the phone. But Revjak just spent inspiration.

I thoroughly approve of the current goings on!

Glad to hear it, Revjak!

Just so you all know, Revjak messaged me the other week to discuss possible upgrades to his glaive in the future. I didn't have much to say :)

To be fair, I was thinking of paying for silver or adamantine at some stage. ;)

Haha! I like this idea, although now that we have access to Message through our items.... how would you feel about Reynwyn swapping out one of the Cantrips in his Book of Shadows for another when we level again?

Reynwyn yes of course, I checked if anyone had the cantrip in their spells known, but forgot to check your book. I'm happy for you to change it right now, seeing as you haven't used it at all yet.

Yes, just to clarify, Revjak was asking if he could upgrade his existing weapon rather than buying a new one. I'd had the idea to turn his glaive into Azuredge for quite a while, so yeah, I just told him not to worry, we could sort it out :)

I still need to upgrade to a breastplate at some point.

Thank you, Hewy! I think I'll snag Minor Illusion then. Perhaps that could turn out to be useful.

I don't mind altering existing items. I actually prefer things like that as it allows PCs to actually make an attachment to something instead of just trading it in for the next and better thing.

So I'm really quite happy for everyone to get stuck into Waterdeep, or at least this little pocket of it, and explore things that interest you. I'm going to put up a link to some of the Adventurer's Guide to the City (minus a few pages at the end), which you don't need to read in its entirety (unless you want to, of course), but you might get something out of a flick through.

Also, if there are people or things you want to check out, or even just equipment you want to get (breastplate, Carric), go for it. The Adventurers' Quarter map linked at the top of the page should give you some options for buying things, and the aforementioned Guide has a couple of pages with lists of shops, taverns etc all over the city that you can visit.

You can have as much free rein here as you like. Adventures will continue to throw themselves at you, so enjoy some civilised city living while you can :)

I know Reynwyn is very interested to seek out a magic shop to purchase some rare inks to scribe some of the rituals from the spellbook he found and then seek out Ammathir Hawkfeather for some followup investigation.

Do we change gems into gold directly or for half price? I think Revjak may also be able to afford a breastplate.

Gems go for full price.

Okay. I'll convert those into gold prices and put them into party loot, then divide between the PCs.

Edit

I've added a line for Arthur, starting with his 185gp.

The gems and normal coins totalled 127.12gp. That splits into five portions of 25.42gp, with 2cp left over in the party fund.

So is the gold on the loot sheet what we have as our splits, including the gems? I am at 342 and some change?

Aye. Revjak's is lower because he already bought chainmail.

I forgot Arthur doesn't have performance, still a good charisma and jack of all trades means a +4 which should be pretty good for most circumstances and he is proficient with musical intruments at least.

Oh right, I forgot about JoAT when I made your Cha check for you... I'll do my best to remember that in the future.

We'll wrap up this tavern scene shortly if people are done with it, then move on.

Thanks for handling the loot distribution, Revjak!

Out of curiosity, how do you plan on handling magic item purchases? Will there be magic shops or will it be more of the get what is found style?

you can add my 42 sp to the party fund as well.

Even with my gold and the sale of my studded leather at half price, I am a bit short on the cost of a breastplate. I am at 372.92, and I need 400.

If Carric lets him know, Revjak would loan or gift him gold.

K...I will handle that in-game. Thanks!

No problem! Not every pc of mine would be so keen, but Revjak is quite protective of his companions. If usually in the "splatter the foe before they hurt my friends" school of aid. ;)

Can someone please update the loot tracker for me? After selling my Studded Leather for 22gp (Half-price), adding the 10gp I had and the 50gp from Revjak, and finally purchasing Breast Plate, my new total should be 22.92 GP. I am unable to update from work.

Got ya Carric.

So looks like we're ready to roll on, I'll wind up the evening. Next day you have a lunch date and afternoon tour of the city with Arkiem, and a dinner date with Alcedor. You don't have to keep these appointments of course :)

Oh, and don't forget your 20% discount at the Garrulous Grocer.

Thanks!

If there were any people mentioned in the Safehaven Inn that you wanted to talk to but didn't get a chance to, let me know, I can tell you who they are etc, or we can have a spoilered conversation while the "present" continues.

Also, NPC spoiler on the campaign info page updated.

Things got very busy with work and a lot of posting seems to happen while I am asleep so I need to catch up.

We're all having a decent morning it seems!

By the way Hewy, has Revjak's weapon changed from a glaive to a halberd? Or an axe, or something else?

Things don't sit still for long in Waterdeep!

Strictly speaking, your weapon is now a halberd. Mechanically speaking, they're the same though, right? Not near my book, but pretty sure I checked that. If that causes any issues, let me know.

Gotta say, one good thing about the pbp format is that I can run multiple, simultaneous scenes at once. Plus, those who post more quickly than others don't have to wait, and those that don't post as frequently don't have to stress about holding anyone else up - everyone can pursue their thing at their own pace. Really enjoying you guys just wandering about and interacting with the city, but don't worry, there'll be more traditional crawls etc coming up soon.

After checking, you're correct. It is now Azuredge. And between the newly imbued weapon and Revjak's zealot features, I'm looking forward to trying all of that together in combat. Though I'm quite enjoying these city scenes.

Oh by the way Revjak, you would consider yourself attuned to Azuredge, but rather than tell you all the powers, I'm going to reveal them little by little. Also, Azuredge is designed "to be as worthy a weapon as its wielder"; as you rise through levels, more powers will be unlocked.

Its base mechanics as a weapon, I can tell you now. It has no inherent bonus to attack or damage, but counts as adamantine, silver, and magic for the purposes of overcoming monsters' resistances (and auto-critting objects). Also, damaged caused by it cannot be regenerated except by normal rest (sorry trolls!). You know already you can command it to shed light at will. That's all you know for now :)

Everyone else, please don't be too jealous - there will be goodies for all, I promise! Revjak's just came early. In fact, someone else has already received a goody, but hasn't had the opportunity to notice yet...

I love it!

An irritation in various campaigns has been the near-necessity to carry weapons of various materials just to be effective. And favoured weapons ending up being replaced with mechanically better out of necessity.

A weapon that grows with the wielder? That gets a huge thumbs up from me.

I look forward to seeing what everyone else's blue items can do.

Arthur is a bit of an odd bard so I wouldn't expect a magic lute necessarily, equally good chance of an offbrand Holy Avenger Righteous Blade of Justice!

Apologies for the delay! A half-written post got lost and I was busier yesterday than I expected with attending a wedding.

No worries Revjak; as mentioned, it's totally not a problem when you're all cruising around doing your own thing.

So given how much this website sucks right now, I'm thinking of making a discord chat server for my campaigns. I know Revjak's on discord, are the rest of you on it? Or prepared to start an account? It's just a free chat server for gamers, basically. Thoughts?

I have an account but don't always have it going. When the site keeps falling over I'd make the extra effort to check it however.

I'm game.

If nothing else, it would give us a communication channel outside of the forum, which has its uses.

I have a Discord setup. And yes, my absence the past few days is due to the site outages. Another option is to switch over to the dndbeyond forums and run our game there. I have access sharing setup so you all could make your PCs on their character builder with all the resources I have there. Just an option to consider. Their forums are much more stable than Paizo...

I'm happy with whatever you guys want to do, but all I was really suggesting was a simple way for us to communicate outside of Paizo. I think it'll settle down here in the near future, but a couple of other games I'm playing in have discord chats, and it's nice to have a less formal (and less public, I guess) medium to communicate through. There would be no expectation to use it frequently, or even at all, but in those other games I find it a nice thing to have.

If people are keen to switch to beyond, I'm happy to have that discussion too. It would mean a small amount of work for me to transfer/link up resources, but that'd be a one time thing. In all I'm happy to stay here, but open to whatever.

I'm content with the Paizo boards. The interruptions, while frustrating, have been rare lately. I am open to a discord channel for chat though. It works nicely for other games.

I'm good with staying here if that's what the group would prefer. Having the Discord chat would actually be nice to be able to obtain quick clarifications or questions.

Okay folks, here's a link to a discord server, where we can chat in the event of any more meltdowns like last week. Please join!